| Yeah there's no way EVER the mixer will be able to predict how hot you want to hit your first processor. No matter what I will ALWAYS have to trim what comes in to optimize that. It's no big deal, a bit of digital trim.
But when I'm mixing I want to be able to reference against commercial material OK, and I want to send an ME exactly what my client approved. I can also send a version with less squash etc. but that's risking a total loss of what was achieved in mixing.
If you get a competent MxE and ME together they will be able to get a great product done regardless of how hot the submitted mix is. If either or both of those people suck, the result will suck regardless too.
I don't know what the statistics are, but I'd bet most major label mixes are submitted hotter than my average of -0.3dbFS peak/-11dbFS RMS. Seems everyone mixes through a limiter these days. I'm sure there will be anecdata to the contrary but that is not a statistic. |